Jeremiah Hurley

{{Short description|Irish Labour Party politician and teacher (1891–1943)}}

{{for|the politician in Ontario, Canada|Jeremiah M. Hurley}}

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| name = Jeremiah Hurley

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| office = Teachta Dála

| term_start = July 1937

| term_end = 2 February 1943

| constituency = Cork South-East

| nationality = Irish

| party = Labour Party

| birth_date = 1891

| birth_place = Macroom, County Cork, Ireland

| death_date = {{death date and age|1943|2|2|1891|df=y}}

| death_place = Cork, Ireland

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Jeremiah Hurley (1891 – 2 February 1943){{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1943-02-03/50/|title=Dáil Éireann debate – Death of Two Deputies|access-date=11 September 2022|work=Houses of the Oireachtas|date=3 February 1943}} was an Irish Labour Party politician, trade unionist and national schoolteacher.{{Cite book|last=Kirwan|first=Eamonn|title=The Threshold of a Newer Movement: The Cork Labour Party 1914–1950|year=2021|isbn=978-1-9123289-2-5}}

Hurley was a member of Cork Corporation from 1931 to 1938, having been nominated by Cork Workers' Council. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Cork Borough constituency at the 1932 and 1933 general elections.

He was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Labour Party Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork South-East constituency at the 1937 general election.{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Jeremiah-Hurley.D.1937-07-21/|title=Jeremiah Hurley|work=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=8 November 2008}} He was re-elected at the 1938 general election.{{cite web|url=http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=1750|title=Jeremiah Hurley|work=ElectionsIreland.org|access-date=8 November 2008}}

He was president of the Irish Trades Union Congress in 1938. He died in 1943 during the term of the 10th Dáil but no by-election was held.